Enlarge / An Iraqi Air Force AC-308 Eliminator fires a Hellfire missile. Afghanistan is getting 7 of these aircraft courtesy of the US Air Force.
The US military has fought the Taliban in Afghanistan for 16 years now, and frequently has done so from the skies with Hellfire strikes by Predator and Reaper drones. Now the US is buying the Afghan military something with the same sort of sensors, loitering time and firepower-except humans will have to sit in their cockpits.
The US Air Force has inked a new deal with aerospace and defense company Orbital ATK to provide seven AC-208 Eliminator...Read more ...